The Brookhaven leader., 1887-10-13
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

sions began its session at Springfield,
Mass, on the 9Th.
GERMAN Socialists give out the state
ment that they have abandoned the old
policy of violence in their efforts for
national or public reforms.
THE American Bankers ASSOCIATE ion
meets at Pittsburgh, Pa, on Wednesday
and Thursday, October Il and IL.
MICHAEL DAvITT spoke on Irish affairs
before the Knights OF Labor general as
semby at Minneapolis, Mimi. on the 5th
The trustees of the Peabody fund for
assisting education in the south, held
their annual meeting in New York on the
9th.
HERR BARTu, editor Of the Berlin Rsichs-
freund has been sentenced to three months
Imprisonment for ascribins the growth Of
the bad tone Of parliament to prince Bis
marks false and insulting accusations
against the Liberals"
FIRE broke out on the night Of the 4th
in the lumber district Of Menomines,
Mich, and before it was extingushed,
had burned over G,000,0 feet Of valuable
lumber in the yards and on the docks.
Loss, Sl00, 900; insurance, 81, 900
The report sent from Tangisr on the 2d
instant that the Sultan Of Morocco was
dead is incorrect. A dispatch from that
place on the 9th said his Majesty was
alive, but that death was momentarily ez'
pected.
NEGOTIATIONS between Italy and France
for treaty OF commerce have been with.
out result. The demands of Italy were in.
admissible. The Rome RctOrm1 argues
that France will be the loser financially in
every way if she refuses the terms of
Italy.
A SENSATION was created in court at
Ennis, Ireland, on the 9th, by the startling
testimony of an informer, who had acted
the part of a spy and a murderer.
SIG. CRIsPI admits that his recent visit
to Bismarck was for the purpose Of com
ing to an understanding by which Russian
aggressions can be checked.
The London STANDARD correspondent at
Madrid telegraphs that in an interview
Senor Moret, Minister of Foreign Affairs,
stated that Spain was dcsirous of main
tanning the status quo il Morocco subject
to non-interference on the part al the
Powers.
A DISPATCH from Cooktown, Australia,
says the German gunboat, Adler, convey
ing King Balietoa, had arrived there and
transferred the King aboard the Alba
German New Guinea.
THE New York Commercial. FuUetiH's
fire record for September shows an aggre-
gate loss of $7,937 800 against s. 100000 in
September, 1856. The total for the first
nine months of the current year is 500, 163,-
500 against So, 400, ,eoO for the correspond
ing period Of 1885.
ALFRED JANICKE, aged twenty-five, son
Gf bIy hnt
himself dead on the night of the 9th as he
was entering police headquarters in
charge of detectives. He had led a dis
sipated life, aud finally stole SOME jewelry
from a man who gave him employ ment
after he had been cast of by his parents.
His arrest and suicide resulted.
A DECREE has been issued at Berlin
under the Socialist law declaring a minor
state of siege there, apd prohibiting the
sale on the streets Of special editions of
papers.
THE Secretary of State has received O
note from the Chilan Minister to the ef-
feet that Mrs. Fitzpatrick embarked at
Valparaiso on the 10th ult. for New York
on vessel carrying the remains of Gen
eral JudSon Fitzpatrick, late United States
Minister to Ch!A, destined for interment
in New Jersey.
THE Treasury Department has decided
that sawed square pine timber imported
from Canada is dutiuble at tho rate Of 81
per 1000 feet, instead OF at the rate of 20
per cent. ad valorem, as assessed by the
collector at Plattsburgh, n. Y.
CARDINAL GIBBONS red hat has arrived
from Rome.
CONGRESSMAN JOIN J. O'NEH.L, of Mis-
souri,, has returned from Europe.
MEXICO is to allow presidents to be ELI
gible for a second term.
ALkRI is a gain felt at the unfavorable
turn in the health Of the Crown Prince of
Germany.
THE strike of the Louisville & Nashville
brakcmen is spreading 10 the switchmen.
The issue between France and Spain
over their respective politics toward
Morocco is becoming very pronounced,
and may lead to serious complications.
EBENTzER SHERMAN, one Of the pioneer
residents of Davenport, L., died at his
home in that city on the 9th, of cancer of
the stomach He was verty-four years
of age, and possessed considerable yalua-
bic city real estate.
AT Albany, N. ", on tie 9th, Justice
Ruger granted another stay in the case of
Jacob Sharpe.
A. SELLER, OF Cleveland, o., and West
ern agent for Reeve. Osbt>n & Co., tea
merchants, New y ork, was arrested in
Marion, o., on the 9th, end taken TO
Cleveland 10 answer to a charge of ad-
ministering poison to his wife.
THE National convention Of funeral di-
rectors, in session at Pittsburgh, Pa, adj
journed finally on the 9th, after the
election of officers. The next convention
of the association will be held at Balti-
more on the first Wednesday in october,
1888.
ARTHUR II. SMELL, acting paying teller
of the Fulton Bank, Brooklyn, N'1s ar
rested on the 9th. He was sort in his ac-
counts to the amount of $4,000.
TED SULLIVAN, the baseball manager,
is in Minneapolis, Mimi, with the lsten-
ton of negotiating for the purchase of
the Minneapolis ball club. lie is backed
by wealthy syndicate.
NINE persons have been arrested TN
charge of being implicated in the murder
of John Kinsella, near Arthlow, Ireland.
Kinsella was killed while res jsting elaer-
gency men attempting to seizs cattle.
Mr.. NJ. DONNELLY, an eXoressman in
Dubuque, Ia., was killed on tire 9th by his
horse running away. In Jumping off, he
was thrown back under the wagon, the
wheels passing over his neck. He livei
few hours.
AMONG the passengers from LfverpAol
by the steamer City of Rome, which er-
rived in New York on the 9th, were Com
modore Foote and Miss Nestle, Governor
Marmaduke of Missouri, Hon. r., Jerming-
ham, NJ. Lord, j. I. Browne and Nine. Pyk-
Newsom, the Swedish prima donna.
Two men, named James Delaney AMI